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By M.K.Bhadrakumar/Russia Insider An exclusive story in Times of India that India has made Russian projects to construct more nuclear power plants in India conditional on Moscow persuading Beijing to give up its opposition to India’s membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. India argues that sans NSG membership it will be constrained to settle for an indigenous nuclear energy program.. Working...

Colombo, May 18 (newsin.asia): The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tami-majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, has said that the time is not far off when the Tamils will ask the Sri Lankan army, navy and air force, to quit the province. Addressing the public gathered in Mulliwaikkal in the Northern Province on Thursday to commemorate the “genocide” which took place there...

The Hague, May 18 (newsin.asia): The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, on Thursday told Pakistan that it must “take all measures at its disposal” to ensure that Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, of Indian national, is not executed pending a final judgment of the court in a case of alleged spying for India. In...

By P.K.Balachandran/www.southasianmonitor.com Colombo, May 16 : A joint security mechanism against terrorism, including a pervasive country-wide surveillance system, is a key feature of the agreement between China and Pakistan on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Dawn reported in an exclusive piece on Monday. The document says that the two countries will “jointly prevent and crack down on terrorist acts that...

Beijing May 16: China has asked India to shed narrow-minded nationalism and learn from the US to get along with China despite the existence of some disputes, writes P.K.Balachandran in www.bdnews24.com In an editorial on India’s absence at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation which concluded on May 15, the Chinese official organ Global Times said that it...

London, May 16: More than 2,800 Bangladeshis arrived on European shores from North Africa in the first three months of 2017, compared to only one over the same period in 2016, said the report in the London-based newspaper,The Independent. Those rescued in the Mediterranean told aid workers they paid more than $10,000 (nearly Tk 850,000) each to be taken from...

By P.K.Balachandran/www.bdnews24.com After India warned developing countries which joined China’s global One Belt One Road or OBOR project that the scheme would cast an unbearable debt burden on their shoulders, China said India’s propaganda had no takers. Commenting on the Indian statement, the official Chinese newspaper, Global Times, said that even if India joins the OBOR, it will only be...

Colombo, May 16: By spurning China’s invitation to be part of the multi-billion dollar, multi-continental One Belt One Road (OBOR) project on an issue of “sovereignty” India has completely isolated itself from Asia, and even its immediate neighborhood, South Asia, over which it claims exclusive influence, writes P.K.Balachandran in www.southasianmonitor.com All countries of South Asia, except India’s fiefdom of Bhutan, attended...

Colombo, May 16 (NIA) - The European Union on Tuesday said Sri Lanka would get the GSP plus facility from May 19 after the European Commission raised no objections to re-granting the facility to the island country. Ambassador and Head of Delegation of the European Union to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Tung-Lai Margue told journalists here that the EU members...

Beijing, May 15 (newsin.asia): In a speech at the One Belt One Road (OBOR) summit here on Monday, which will please New Delhi, Washington and Tokyo, Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, urged participating countries to ensure peace and rule-based freedom of navigation in the Indian Ocean. The speech appeared to be a mild censure of China which is accused...

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